The right to bear arms was created as the Second Amendment, not later, because of its great importance and the need to keep the government in check…
A recent decision by the 4th District Court of Appeals concluded that AR-15 rifles are not protected by the Second Amendment. The decision is not only shortsighted, but also completely against the intent of our constitutional rights as laid out in the Second Amendment. Our founders wrote it to protect citizens from being denied the type of weapons that are described as “military style”. That is just what they wanted the citizens to be able to own and possess.
What the 4th DCA lost sight of was the fact that the Second Amendment was written at a time in which we had just finished a war with a government that tried, from thousands of miles away,to remove firearms from the citizens. The hope of our enemy was to disarm the populous, thus making them easier to rule while subsequently preventing uprisings. The Second Amendment was written to allow citizens the ability to possess firearms of various types and in sufficient numbers to be able, should it become necessary, to remove the current government. Those drafting the amendment knew that without military-style weapons, the people would face an impossible fight against a government-sponsored military.
So when the 4th DCA said that AR-15 style rifles are not protected by the Second Amendment, it went completely contrary to the constitutional meaning of the our rights and the reasoning behind why we need it. Maybe the 4th DCA needs to go back to school and learn a little history about the time when our Constitution was being written and what its Framers’ intentions really were. The AR-15, and any other military style weapon, for that matter, is exactly what the Second Amendment allows for. The significance of the amendment and its accompanying rights were so critical, in fact, that it was established as the second– not the tenth or fourteenth amendment.
Chris Wagoner is a Senior OpsLens Contributor and U.S. Army Veteran. He has been in law enforcement the last 35+ years. He specializes in LE Firearms Instruction, and is in charge of a large Police Academy in North Florida. In his spare time Chris is a freelance Military Reporter and owner/founder of the Largest Military Videos Channel on YouTube “3rdID8487”.
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